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Bonnie Elliott, Trevor Jamieson, Clayton Jauncey, Amanda Ma, Erik Thomson, David Wenham, Timothy White, Wakarra Gondarra, Merlin Eden, Agnes Choi, Evan Williams, Xin Ocean, Daniel Motearefi, Jay Ryan, Sean Choolburra, Tenille Kennedy, Quentin Yung, Steve McCall, Mahesh Jadu, Mark Bradshaw, Gary Young, Goran D. Kleut, Osamah Sami, Michael McDermott, Mansoor Noor, Kaushik Das, Roderick MacKay, Ahmed Malek, Samson Coulter, and Baykali Ganambarr in The Furnace (2020)

Review by hedley-finger

The Furnace

6/10

Good concept but could have been better executed

The ingredients are rich: in the 19th century outback, aboriginals, prospectors, Chinese, cameleers (uniformly referred to as Afghans even though they come from many Middle Eastern cultures), graziers, peddlers, Moslems, Hindus, troopers, and station hands negotiate wary relations. A hardbitten prospector has stolen gold in his possession and needs to find a way to legitimise it. He falls in with a cameleer and they trek across the desert to escape the law and other criminals in pursuit.

This is an outback thriller trying to be a deep and meaningful arthouse excursion. The slow pace eventually becomes tedious and a couple of plot glitches irritate. Talented actors work hard and turn in excellent performances, but they are fighting the director.
  • hedley-finger
  • Dec 14, 2020

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